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The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, and the Chairperson of the Working Group on business and human rights, have written to one of the world’s largest investors in residential real estate, the Blackstone Group L.P
., expressing serious concerns that its actions are inconsistent with international human rights law.Here the incredible Blackstone's reply
We encourage actvists to use the documents in their outreach. Hence the challenge is on!

People living in informal settlements, that is more than 850 million people worldwide and one quarter of the global urban population, are disproportionally affected, but their needs are underrepresented in national and local climate policies, also within the international climate community. We have attended the Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland
, to further the widely ignored discussions about the nexus between the right to housing and climate change.

We, social movements, civil society and local governments’ organizations are committed to social justice through the promotion, defense and fulfillment of all human rights related to habitat, including the Human Right to Adequate Housing, Land and the Right to the City in every region of the world.

On the occasion of the World Day for the Right to the City, the Global Platform for the Right to the City stands in solidarity with the victims of and resistance to urban development driven by neoliberal policies, in particular against forced evictions, and launches a strong appeal to local and national governments and the UN to implement the Right to the City as a collective path to build just, inclusive, peaceful and sustainable cities for all.

NEW YORK (18 October 2018) – Ignoring almost 900 million people living in overcrowded informal settlements is a global human rights scandal that governments must resolve, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing said today.

Workers in the aftermath of the 2016 earthquake in Ecuador Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
Millions of staff clean our streets and keep our cities moving. It’s time to recognise their contribution to the everyday fabric of our urban lives